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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2112201, member: 42773&quot;]Hoard evidence can tell us a great deal, at least about the person or persons that deposited the hoard. For instance, here is a map comparing the mints found in the Antioch and Braithwell hoards. Antioch mints are circled in orange, Braithwell in green...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]399021[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The disposition of the Antioch hoard shows earlier coins from the central Roman mints, and later coins from Antioch. The Braithwell hoard includes earlier coins from central mints with later coins from western (at this time Gallic Empire) mints. The person who accumulated the Antioch hoard started in Rome and traveled east, while the person who deposited the Braithwell hoard started in Rome and traveled literally to the western edge of the Empire. For a good read, see this <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Antioch%20and%20Braithwell%20hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/NumisWiki/view.asp?key=Antioch%20and%20Braithwell%20hoard" rel="nofollow">Numiwiki article</a>, from which the map is taken.</p><p><br /></p><p>In many cases, hoards were likely deposited by soldiers. Since they had no local banks, they buried their money, intending to return to it after battle. The demise of some of these soldiers has been a boon to numismatics ever since - as macabre as that sounds.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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